On Going Feral (2009)
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On Going Feral (2009)
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Re: On Going Feral (2009)
#2hits close... I have not been to the office in over two months. Longest before that was three months. When I first started to work remote I felt nervous about being away for more than a week or two, thinking it would cause problems. As time has gone on though, I started to feel that as long as I have a project to work on and stay verifiably productive, I don't worry about it as much anymore.
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#3Naps. TFA mentions it in passing, but that's the biggest difference I notice in working remote or working in an office.
"I'm tired, I think I'll have a nap now" is the greatest single freedom that remote working has given me.
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#4Recently visited home for a week and a half in Texas while working remote from my job in DC. My dad thought it was strange I was carrying my laptop whenever we went out for food during business hours, and my mom didn't understand why I couldn't keep doing chores all day. My younger brothers are more with it, so they understood. Maybe next time I visit I'll stay at an airbnb!
I still managed to get work done, but he's absolutely right when he says "But in humans it (going feral) can happen faster, since most of our domestication is through education and socialization rather than breeding." Being in my childhood bedroom made me feel like a kid again.
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#5“I inhabit physical environments where old communities are crumbling, and people are tentatively groping for social structure through meetups”... “DC area”. Hey, I recognize that place. Great description of northern virginia in 2009 and somewhat still today. Very transient, inhuman place. But safe and affordable.
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#6“Cloudworker lifestyles — mobile, home-based, unshaven, pajama-clad and Starbucks-swilling — create a psychological transformation that is very similar to what happens when animals go feral. In animals, it takes a couple of generations of breeding for the true wild nature to re-emerge. Cats, for instance, revert to a basic, hardy, stocky, short-haired robustly-interbred tabby variety. Dogs become mutts. But in humans it can happen faster, since most of our domestication is through education and socialization rather than breeding.”
:-)
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#7I've been remote for about 5 years now. I work for an eat what you kill consultancy so the metric is easy. Keep my accounts growing and Sales is happy. Keep about 75% of my time billable and Delivery is happy. Quit working at 5 and my wife is happy. That's all there is to it.
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#8I think it would be good for a lot of us to get away from the "normal" way of life to discover who we really are.
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#9Naps. TFA mentions it in passing, but that's the biggest difference I notice in working remote or working in an office. "I'm tired, I think I'll have a nap now" is the greatest single freedom that remote working has given me.
I also enjoy "this is hard, I'm going to lie in the hammock and think about it for a while"
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#10I work for myself, from home. I answer to no nobody (except clients, which I can drop at my own risk if I choose) and I do what I want when I want. it’s both the single greatest development in my life and the scariest.
greatest for obvious reasons (absolute freedom, my time and output are my own, I can be extremely productive in ways I can optimize, I can work on my house and hobbies as appropriate) but scariest because now that I’ve tasted this life I don’t know how I’ll ever go back. and the limit of what one individual can do (for humanity, I mean) from his house is unsatisfying in the long run.